vala 0.40.6
- From: Rico Tzschichholz <install-module master gnome org>
- To: FTP Releases <ftp-release-list gnome org>
- Subject: vala 0.40.6
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 20:12:19 +0000 (UTC)
About vala
==========
valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates
Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject
type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala
source code.
The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the
GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the
following: Interfaces, Properties, Signals, Foreach, Lambda
expressions, Type inference for local variables, Generics, Non-null
types, Assisted memory management, Exception handling, Type modules
(Plugins)
Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially
GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All
that is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing
the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes
with bindings for GLib and GTK+ and many others from the GNOME
Platform.
Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written
in C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the
generated header files and C applications may then access the GObject-
based API of the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily
possible to write a bindings generator for access to Vala libraries
from applications written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as
a library, so that all compile-time information is available when
generating a binding.
News
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* Regression fix:
- codegen: Avoid critical for array in-parameters with custom length-type
- tests: Drop assert which is failing on big-endian archs
ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.40/vala-0.40.6.changes (386)
Download
========
https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.40/vala-0.40.6.tar.xz (3.20M)
sha256sum: 6da450f1a73e0f1e17506e68cce5b9e8996349e576d3f8cb6b0b73ee22e44be2
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